What makes life Beautiful?

Dear Shuchira

               

The journey to Chittoor was around 360 KM but it threw a great glimpse on life for me for being happy. I had wonderful time addressing what you want from life. On the contrary it was a great learning to me what life all about is. Being at such a tender age you are sharing the experience from someone who is older, is definitely an advantage because I did not encounter such experience in my life when I was young.

Though I have shared what sort of career you may choose for yourself by seeing a larger picture. But the reality is that you must listen to everyone (parents, friends, teacher and me) but take the conscious decision which pleases you and YOURSELF, with a commitment that you are the person who will take all the FRUITS and THORNS of your choice and never blame others for your failure. That is the simple TRUTH.

Dear, your encounter has compelled me to write what we should equip our lives with so that we can all live a very happy life. This is exactly in response to what I asked “what is the most important thing in life?” Your answer to this query was “MONEY”. Your instinctive response made me to search all the things which are very important which money can’t buy but still it is very important to lead an absolute quality life. I am addressing now the core question of money and all other things which I feel is important.

Myth of MONEY: Money is necessary and important as it helps in excluding physical pain which one would have experienced. Money can assure us good food, shelter and clothing and all the material things which one can dream of. But the quality of life which we have led till date will definitely assure us that we will get enough monies to live life with any problems, whatever job or occupation we will choose in future. So money will never be the factor which will make life interesting. What can make life interesting are:

   

    FRIENDS:  What is great in having wealth when we do not have someone to share with? This is why we need friends. The family is the first group of friends who will stand beside us till we breathe last. But we need to have friends from all walks and shades of life. The list of friends should go beyond the boundaries of STATE and NATION. Life really becomes very interesting with having great friends to interact with.

  READING BOOKS: If we give white sheets and offer anyone to write about anything worthwhile and interesting. Then we will find that majority will not be able to write beyond few pages. Which means that the entire life of a person is reduced no even too few pages. The present era has severe addiction to TV, mobile phone, internet and I-PAD which is acquiring more junk than wisdom. These modern mediums will throw information which is not necessary and much time as logical sequence is spent on reading unwanted information connected to one useless information to the other. The final outcome is more JUNK and less USEFUL INFORMATION. The better alternative to all this is READING BOOKS because of following reason:

o   We can read experiences of thousands of life in one life.

o   We can choose the subject what we like and explore new subject what we know little about.

o   Books are great companion in solitude as we will have rarely little time to KILL.

        COOKING: If one knows cooking then one is totally independent. Baking must be an additive skill to regular cooking. Cooking is a great stress buster but at the root it teaches

o   Simplicity, Humbleness, Love and Affection: food is all about sharing and no one can pass this milestone if we do not have humility within us.

o   Hygiene: The foundation to cooking is cleanliness.

o   Patience: Every recipe has its standard time and there is no shortcut to it. Imbibing a reality that timing has always been the essence of cooking because there is only a little difference between the most amazing food and the bad food. Not leaving the stove till the entire dish is prepared will give no choice but to develop patience.

o   Appreciating hard labour: Everyone start loving their mother the moment one learns cooking. Making the same size of chapatti or any dish continuously for years without incentive in return is the hallmark of SELFLESS HARD LABOUR. Before throwing the food to dustbin one will imbibe the value behind the hard labour which has gone behind the food.

        TIME with OURSELF: It would be surprising that when we dial our own number the dial tone is always engaged. This shows that we have all the time for everything except for ourselves. The moment we get up we must spend at least ten minutes with closed eyes with a prayer to almighty for having given you a chance for one more day to live. Decide what we gonna do with the whole day ahead with us.

o   Playing: Acquiring slowly all the major sporting skill will enable us to daily spend quality time for our physical fitness by rotating different sport without ever getting burnt out. The most beautiful thing we learn from sport is that there is always a LOSER and a WINNER and rarely there are games ending in TIE. This experience becomes so important in our daily lives.

o   Dancing: Dancing not only alleviates you out of stress but gives you a tremendous confidence of NO SHAME. This aspect enable us to imbibe that one can dance anywhere without ever bothering about the surrounding with any semblance of fear. Having this attitude gives always the mood of life in celebration mode.

        GARDENING: Seeing a beautiful garden at the backyard when we wake up is a wonderful feeling. The healthy garden at the backyard teaches so many lessons in real lives. Gardening is nothing but nurturing pets, knowing who is weak and how to make them strong. Variety is what makes garden beautiful. So it is very mush possible to keep everyone together adding to only happiness. Every plant has unique way of expressing. By seeing ones garden we would be able to experience the nature of a person.

        TRAVELLING: Every year one has to give a long break in at least two spells which must be spent in visiting those places which one has not seen before. Travelling will develop an attitude that we can start our life from any place at anytime. This spirit is fundamental in healthy living.

       CAMERA: Memories accumulate slowly and always catches us over a period of time. A retro to these memories if it is accompanied with good photographs then it gives a large pool of amazing picture which one can pursue as a hobby slowly developing into a career.

Dear Shuchira the article is only a precursor to healthy life which I have written for you. Please ask any doubts you have while reading this material because this may serve as guide to so many young people who are seeking answers to so many questions on life.

Warm Regards

Your Uncle

Hari Rao